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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Monday, August 10, 2015

I skirt the gay life in Boston and Cambridge, as I visit the "origins" of Facebook, and watch a BLM demonstration

Well, I’m back from my tour of Rhode Island (West Warwick
and Newport), Provincetown, and Boston, some of it for “business”, with details
later.

I covered P-town yesterday.
Sunday, I tried to look up gay life in Boston, and had a hard time
getting to the right streets. I did find
the Paradise on Massachusetts Ave on Sunday afternoon; it appeared to be closed, but a sandwich shop
next door was open, and a lot of the local community was around, much of it
riding bicycles (with at least two familiar faces from DC, one riding
piggeback).

I had detoured because of a “Black Lives Matter” march
nearby (details on Issues blog).

I didn’t get to the right area (around Boyleston, or the
Southie areas) to see the Boston bars;
instead, a couple more familiar faces.
Lot’s of scenery of people rowing and training for regattas on the
Charles River (we all know about this from “The Social Network”). This seems to be a very popular city.

It would be wonderful today to be a young adult living on a
campus like any of those in Cambridge.
It would be nice to be 19 years old, able to run up the stairs of one’s
dorm and invent a social network that would make one a billionaire. College is the time you start your adult
life, but the university still provides some ballast, some infrastructure, some
real structure, some stability.

For gay men, this was not very easy when I started in the
1960s (William and Mary in 1961). It’s
so much better today. In another month,
Jack Andraka will start at Stanford, and it would look like an afterthought to
his medical invention and worldwide tour this year.

I’ll add something else, sobering. It’s a little chilling to see signs like “Watertown”,
“Cheshire”, “Sandy Hook” and “Newtown” while driving Interstates and know that
very near where I am, horrific things have happened. No, I didn’t go to those exact locations,
didn’t have time to, or feel inclined.

But history can visit oh so close.

Note also, the remnant of the Station Club in West Warwick (a straight club, but the fire in 2003 provided a major lesson in club fire safety.)

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